it's true.

related event: Liu An killed his wife, which is a story from the popular romance of the three kingdoms.

Liu Bei was defeated by Lu Bu, and the whole army was wiped out. A horse fled alone and wanted to go to Xudu to be attached to Cao Cao. There was no food on the way, so I had to beg for food from the people's homes everywhere. One day, I went to a family to stay, and a teenager from this family came out to meet me. Liu Bei asked his name, knowing that it was the mansion of Orion Liu An.

Liu An has been admiring Liu Bei for a long time. This time, I heard that Liu Bei came to our house and wanted to find some game to offer, but because of the rush of time, I couldn't get it at the moment, so Liu An killed his wife and gave it to Liu Bei. When Liu Bei ate meat, he felt delicious and asked what kind of meat it was. Liu An replied that it was wolf meat. Liu Bei didn't doubt it. After a full meal, he stayed at Liu An's home that night.

The next morning, when Liu Bei and his party were about to leave, they suddenly found a woman who was killed under the kitchen and all the meat on her arm was cut off. Liu Beicai knew that the "wolf meat" he ate yesterday was actually the meat of Liu An's wife. Liu Bei "was so sad that he got on the horse with tears." When I met Cao Cao, I talked about Liu An's killing his wife for food. Cao Cao "ordered Sun Gan to give it a hundred taels of gold".

Liu An's cruelty is hateful, but Liu Bei's composure after learning the truth should also be the object of moral criticism. Under the influence of the feudal ethics "brothers are like brothers, wives are like clothes", this incident of killing wives and entertaining guests has actually become a "beautiful talk" through the ages.

Extended information:

Historical background at that time:

During the Anshi Rebellion in the Middle Tang Dynasty, Zhang Xun and Xu Yuan were besieged in Suiyang for several months, and fought more than 411 battles with the An Lushan army before and after, killing 311 enemy generals and 1.2 million soldiers.

Unfortunately, we were outnumbered, and soon the city ran out of food and grass, so the defenders killed horses for food. After the horses were eaten up, they ate mice and sparrows, and all the skins on the soldiers' bows and arrows were eaten up.

Zhang Xun took the lead in killing his concubine, and Xu Yuan also killed his maid to feed the soldiers. So the city began to legally eat people, and the residents were easy to eat. The soldiers first ate eat woman and the old and the children, and then ate their own sick and powerless people. They guarded the city for several months, and * * * ate thirty thousand people.

There were 61,111 people in the city of Suiyang. When An Lushan finally attacked it, only a few hundred people were left, and the soldiers in the city had no strength to hold a bow. Zhang Xun is a national hero in the history books. Under his leadership, it's terrible to eat people for the city or the festival, starting with children, then women and finally men.

People's Daily Online-The "cannibalism" incident in the history of China: The "wife-killing" of Liu An in the Three Kingdoms turned into a beautiful talk.